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rooftree
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The
rooftree, and the rafters slanting down from it, projected their clean Douglas fir a few inches beyond the roof itself, and where the rafter tails overhung the garden Mark shaped their ends in a delicate curve.
Under his very
rooftree he was secreting Edward Whaley and William Goffe, two of the patriot judges who condemned to the scaffold that misguided and perfidious representative of the "divine right of kings," Charles I of England.
The prospect of the woman's artistic control apparently shocks the impotent hero/poet at last into functionality, the desperately anticipated erection rises at last, "a cock stood on the
rooftree," and the rains come.
What response do I give to the Japanese builder of our missionary residence who has arranged for a crucial Shinto ceremony to be carried out in connection with the raising of the
rooftree of our new home?
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